Quotes About Character

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

I am never disappointed in Jobe Watson ... (who) is a man of the highest integrity, highest character and a great person for our footy club ... I have no concern for Jobe.

A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

He's a good man," Ranger said. "And you?" "I'm better.

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

You find out what type of man you are.

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.

When Javy Baez goes out there, man, you saw him before the game sitting on the bench, saw him waving into the camera, he's just being himself. I love that.

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.

As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.